[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4037 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4037

 To prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency 
from proposing, finalizing, implementing, or enforcing any prohibition 
or restriction under the Clean Air Act with respect to the emission of 
         methane from the oil and natural gas source category.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 17, 2015

 Mr. Fleming introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency 
from proposing, finalizing, implementing, or enforcing any prohibition 
or restriction under the Clean Air Act with respect to the emission of 
         methane from the oil and natural gas source category.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Keeping Oil and Natural Gas Flowing 
for Consumers Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION AGAINST EPA REGULATION OF METHANE EMISSIONS FROM 
              OIL AND NATURAL GAS SOURCE CATEGORY.

    (a) In General.--The Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
Agency may not propose, finalize, implement, or enforce any prohibition 
or restriction under the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.) with 
respect to the emission of methane from the oil and natural gas source 
category.
    (b) Proposed Rule.--The Administrator of the Environmental 
Protection Agency may not finalize, implement, or enforce--
            (1) the proposed rule entitled ``Oil and Natural Gas 
        Sector: Emission Standards for New and Modified Sources'', 
        published by the Environmental Protection Agency in the Federal 
        Register on September 18, 2015 (80 Fed. Reg. 56593); or
            (2) any substantially similar rule.
    (c) Definition.--In this section, the term ``oil and natural gas 
source category'' means--
            (1) crude oil production, including the well and extending 
        to the point of custody transfer to the crude oil transmission 
        pipeline; and
            (2) natural gas production, processing, transmission, and 
        storage, including the well and extending to, but not 
        including, the city gate.
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